I was in the library earlier yesterday (where I am now) and I tried to access www.chiffboard.mati.ca, but I kept getting a page that told me that the message boards didn’t exist.
It let me onto the www.chiffandfipple.com homepage, but not onto the message boards; it kept saying they didn’t exist and redirected me to MSN search.
I checked the speeling five or six times and it was correct. I tried it with http://www and with only www and with only http://, but nothing worked.
Then I went back to my room and everything was fine. Now, in the library again, it’s (obviously) letting me back on here.
Somebody tell me–did the page dissappear for a little while yesterday, or is it the Crystal People at work?
I’ve had trouble once in a while, but I never know if it’s my computer, which isn’t running very well, or our Internet connection or the website itself. It did happen to me yesterday I believe. It means you should go do something else.
I had trouble getting on to some web pages today but not here. Iwon.com said something about too many people trying to access the server. Wonder if it’s due to the bad weather in the midwest? Phone lines down or something?
Hey, Cran…I realize this is off topic a bit..but would you mind not changing your avatar every couple of days? It’s a pain in the butt to keep blocking it. K’ thanks
Get the adblock extension for Firefox. You can do that here: http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Treat any avatars you don’t like (typically political or aniamted ones for me) as an ad–right click on it and choose “Adblock this image”
Presto!
In Cran’s case, I’m seriously considering blocking all of his content on phhBB boards entirely, even though I really don’t object to what he has to say most of the time…I often do find his avatars objectionable and am finding reasonable efforts to prevent myself from being subject to them to be ineffectual.
To block someone entirely, you need phpBB User Hide, but the version that’s “official” doesn’t work with firefox 1.5 or later. Version 1.3 does, but it’s not official, and has disappeared somewhat from the net. I found a link in Norweigan (?) here: http://rapidshare.de/files/10956477/phpbb_user_hide-1.3-fx.xpi.html
It works great. I don’t know why it’s disappeared off the net.
I’ve already done that (blocked a user’s posts with mozilla) but a large poriton of the time I actually access C&F from the library so it’s not really effective.
What I wish was available here is board-specific blocking. For example, on another forum I belong to, it’s possible to block other members from sending you PMs and you can also turn off all their posts and responses from your view. What you do is to log in to your account, and go to “My Settings” and click on a little box that says “Block this user’s posts” or “Block PMs from the following users.” I like that system because it allows you to log in on any computer and after you’re logged in, your settings are already there.
But it’s my impression that that kind of thing has to be implemented at the moderator level in order to be applied correctly…
I’ll change it as often as I please. Making (and copying) avatars is an art or sorts, and I enjoy that art.
Rich (i.e. the moderator who nobody seems to remember exists anymore) has told me there’s no problem whatsoever with changing your avatar over and over and there’s also no problem with having political and religious avatars as long as you don’t have naked people or Joan Rivers or other obscene stuff like that.
P.S. I’ve said this before, but I don’t mind when people “hi-jack” my threads to an off-topic area. I encourage it, because that’s how “normal” conversation usually goes anyway–you don’t just keep talking about the same thing on and on!
Sure, no problem. I didn’t really see my request as a moderator issue. I wasn’t demanding anything of you, and certainly wasn’t prepared to make some complaint to the moderators. It was more of a friendly request, you know, like you might ask someone to quit swearing, even though you may be in an adult bar, and we have freedom of speech in this country. You’re perfectly within your rights to tell me you don’t intend to accomodate my request, as you have done. In a bar, I may grumble about impoliteness and take myself elsewhere. Here, I have other options.
No problem. Your perogative. Welcome to the killfile (as they say on usenet).
